Taking stock of Harry Reid’s year
December 20, 2010 - 8:20 am
With the dust starting to settle on the 110th Congress, The New York Times takes stock of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada in this piece.
Besides winning a re-election that few people believed he could pull off, Reid achieved "a raft of legislative victories on a chamber best known recently for gridlock," the Times said.
The paper's count included health care reform, new Wall Street regulations, the economic stimulus bill, the Obama-GOP tax cut bill, and the repeal over this weekend of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
“I don’t have people saying ‘he’s the greatest speaker,’ ‘he’s handsome,’ ‘he’s a man about town,’ ” Reid told the paper. “But I don’t really care. I feel very comfortable with my place in history.”